Improved bed-bottom



` Todll whom 'it may concerne` meseta n.0. HoLDEN-AND E. L. RocKE'r'r, 0F oWAToNNA, MINNESOTA.

I I Lette/rs Patent No; 90,171, dated May 18, 1869.

rMPRovzep l BED-BOTTOM. y

Beit -known that we, E. C. HOLDENA and E. L. BROCKETT, of Owatonna, in the county of Steele, and State of liinnesot'a,` have invented `a new and improved Bed-Bottom; and we dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear,"and exact description of theconstrnction-and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, making a peut of this,specification7 in which- Figure 1 is a-longitudnal vertical section in the line xvofg. 2;'and

Figure 2 is an end elevation.` l This invention consists, first, in a peculiar construction of slats for hed-bottoms, iuthree pieces', whereof `two are parallel, Yand thethird curved between the i other ftwo; and, second, in hanging the foundation piece of each slat'upon crank-shafts, one at e-ch end,

y saidsllai'ts being placed `longitudinally ofthe end pieces of the bed-frame.

In the drawingsg s a b c are the y componentfparts of `our slat,.a and b being rigidly fastened` together at the ends of thelatter, andgband c being connected by bands d, placed at equal"distances`on each side the transverse centre Aof b,wooden blocks d being interposedbetween b and c, so that they may not come in contact, and their The Schedule refenfed to in these Letters Patent `and making part of the same.

springiness be thereby diminished. This construction makes a very yielding, elastic, and cheap slat. l

The foundation part c of each slat is hung at each end npon sho'rt crank-shafts e', p laced longitudinally of the end pieces h of the bed-frame, al] the crankshaftse' in each endpiece being placed in a row, and the ends 'f the shafts being placed in grooves t' z', cut lengthwise of the end piece to receive them.'

This is a most convenient and simple means of f rattachment of slats to frame, and ccntributesbesides,

to the yielding quality cf the slats under pressure.

Having thus described ourinvention,

Whatwe claim as new, and desire to secure by Let-` The arrangement of the two parallel pieces c c, the

curved piece b, the two blocks d d, one oneach side of the centre, and the hanging cranks e e, substattially as and for the purposes specied.

` E. C. HOLDEN. Witnesses: f

D. HIGBIE, H. H. JoHNsoN. i u E. L. BROOKETT.

Witnesses:

WM. A. STRING, H. H. JoHNsoN. 

